# Moderator Extension

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-extension/67305
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** deprecated
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-extension/67305 "2017-08-02T10:15:17Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-extension/67305/13 "2018-03-02T13:58:21Z")

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I’ve done a significant reworking of this plugin. I’ve changed it’s name to “Moderator Extension” to reflect a change of scope to include a variety of modifications to moderator functionality.

@hawk or @jomaxro could you update the topic title to “Moderator Extension”? Thanks.

[https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-moderator-extension/commit/098adbba5159fe5ad47edc1ec0284a7768daaa42](https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-moderator-extension/commit/098adbba5159fe5ad47edc1ec0284a7768daaa42)

The highlights of the changes are:

- All moderator administration is now in `/admin/users` in a new “Moderation” section that appears if a user is a moderator. Like other settings in `/admin/users`, admins have read/write permissions and moderators have read permissions.

- Moderators (currently) have two ‘types’: default and filtered. The key attributes of each of type is listed next to the ‘Type’ setting.

- Moderators can now be assigned to multiple categories using the ‘Categories’ setting (see above screenshot). The significance of assignment to a category depends on the moderator type (see above descriptions).

- When category assignments are filtering a moderator action list, like the flag lists, the filtering categories are listed.

- As the description of the types states, all flag and queued post notifications _and_ the reminder messages will reflect the moderator’s category assignments. This was true in the previous version, however this logic has been significantly upgraded to handle assignments to multiple categories.

- You can now display a list of moderators assigned to a category above the topic list(s) for that category. There are both site-wide and category-specific settings for this.

Additional features contemplated:

- ‘Restricted’ Moderator Type. The deeper I got into this plugin, the more ambitious I got. A  
‘restricted’ moderator type feels more doable now that I’ve laid some more of the groundwork. Something like:

- Settings to control which admin routes are available to moderators

- Category-specific moderator groups.

note: @ewanly (any existing moderator category assignments you made will be respected in the new system).

cc @Heather_Dudley

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